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JUNE A. D. 1900.

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How to Perform Tricks of Sleight-of-hand.
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Prices we Pay You for the U. S. Coins worth
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VOL. VI.

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NO. 6

S !

HALL I go with them, or shall I

.make a bolt of it right away from
'the country? Mother would fret
awhile to miss me, but she would
think it better than my joining what they call
‘the poaching set;’ though, to my mind,
there’s no such great harm in snaring a few
birds that have perhaps got their living on
your very own bit of land.”

These were Jim Wraxall’s thoughts as he
sat gloomily on a stile one autumn evening.
He had got into bad ways of late, there was
no doubt, and now he was on the point of
doing still worse, and openly joining a band
of wild young fellows who, though undetec'-
ed, were known to make poaching raids on
the preserves of Squite Weatherley.

By persuasion and scoffs they had got Jim
to promise that he would go out with them
that very night, and here he was wandering
about, very unsettled in his mind, and half
inclined to take desperate measures to get
free from comrades who he knew would bring
him to ruin.

For Jim had good parents, and had re¬
ceived a careful training; and such lads, if
they will go to the bad, do so with their eyes
open, and are punished by many a stab from
that rough friend Conscience.

“The parson talks of our being guided to do
right, and warned against doing wrong,” pur¬
sued Jim, going on with his uncomfortable
thoughts; “but it seems to me if God was
asleep now, as far as people in the world go
(I don’t mean no harm, nothing wicked by
it),’’apologised Jim to himself; “but if only
messengers could come straight and tell us,
‘You’re not to do that,’ or ‘He wants you
to do this,’ like they did in the Bible long
ago, we should be all right and no mistake.

Fd like a messenger to-night, to tell me what
Fd best do.”

You see Jim was not altogether hardened
yet, but weak, and dared not break with
his bad friends as he should have done, and
he could only think of one other choice—
running away from home, and perhaps
’listing as a soldier, which would be a great
grief to his family, one of the most respected
in Lowerdale.

In the midst of his musing a hasty step on
the field-path roused him—a. little hurried
tread, accompanied at times by a half sob.
Before Jim could move, a girl ran up to him;

in the dusk be saw it was the child of a small
tenant-faimer who lived on the hill above
Lowerdale.

“S ssy !” he exclaimed in surprise, for it was
ten o’clock at night, though a half-hidden
moon made it seem much earlier.

“O Jim, Jim,” broke out poor Sissy, “It's
father! he’s been taken a deal worse than
ever, and I’ve been to fetch Dr. Carter, and
he’s away from home till to-morrow, and now
I’m running to Bridgelawton to fetch the big
doctor there. I daren’t go back without
some one, mother does cry so.”

“But, Sissy, you can’t go to Bridgelawton,
five miles by the highroad, at this time of
night.”

“Yes, I can,” said Sissy, panting still: “let
me goby, Jim; mother thinks he’s taken for
death this time.”

Sissy’s father, Thomas Birt, had had a bad
fall from a haystack in the summer, and had
since been subject to terrible fits, one of
which would carry him off, the doctors said :
it took all a man’s strength to prevent him
hurting himself during the attacks, and so it
was that Mrs. Birt had to keep their one
farm-laborer to attend on his poor master,
leaving only little Sissy to send for the
doctor.

Jim was very sorry for the little sobbing,
frightened thing; he caught her pinafore as
she tried to pass by, and stroked her hair,
and spoke out on the impulse of the mo¬
ment,—

“Don’t cry, Sissy: I’ll go and fetch Dr.
Nash. I can run quicker than you. You
just go home and say as how Jim will bring
the doctor.”

And Jim was as good as his word: he
forgot all about his engagement for midnight
at Dead Thorn Corner, a nd set off at a steady

trot across the fields towards Bridgelawton.
Midnight found him side by side with the
doctor, driving in his gig to the Birt’s lonely
homestead.

Poor Birt was more like a raging lunatic
than a sick man, and there was work for all
of them in the house that night. Jim coaxed
poor Mrs. Birt away from the sick-room, by
begging her to put little shivering Sissy to
bed, for the child was still cowering in her
father’s room, half stupefied with terror. And
then the doctor ordered her to make coffee
for the watchers, and that kept her down
stairs awhile out of sight of the agony which
she couldn’t soothe.

Strong medicines presently quieted the
Poor farmer, but the doctor told Jim there
was little chance of his waking, and if he did
it might only be to linger a few days a hope- 1 '
less madman. Very sad news, for poor Birt
had been a good husband and a kind father.

At daybreak the doctor was obliged to
leave, and the farm laborer being asleep in
the kitchen, he gave all his directions to Jim,
thinking him a relation. “Don’t disturb
the woman and child,” hesaid:“Birt will lie
in this state perhaps for hours, but if he
chance to wake up suddenly and seem clear
in his mind, he will not be far from death
then, and you had better rouse the wife. Do
you understand?”

Jim said “Yes,” wished the doctor good
night, heard him promise to return in a few
hours, and went back to his lonely watch.

He had never been with a dying person be¬
fore, and it seemed very solemn to sit and
listen to the slow breathings, wondering if
each was to be the last; and if so, what came
next? And some day he must lie oft a death
bed, too. Farmer Birt had been a religious
man, and of late had made special prepara¬
tions for his possible removal from the world,
as Jim knew; but how would it be with one
who never thought of these things?

Suppose he,.Jim Wraxall, had gone out
poaching that night and got shot dead! And
he had nearly made up his mind to join the
poachers,—only a mere chance had prevented
it.

But was it a chance ? or was little Sissy,
with the tearful face and stumbling footstep, a
real messenger from God to him to keep him
from harm?

The more Jim thought of this, the more he
felt that the God whom he thought to be
sleeping or careless of His creatures had really
stooped down from Heaven to keep him from
evil. He tried to make some sort of thanks
in words for this goodness, but he could say
nothing but “Thank God for this !”

Then the sick man stirred, and Jim lifted
him up, and noticed a look of intelligence in
his glazed eyes.

“Call the missis?” questioned Jim.

The farmer nodded, “Aye, and sharp.”

Mrs. Birt came in directly, and then the
farmer said “Sissy t”

So Jim fetched Sissy, wrapped in a blanket
and sound asleep, and laid her by her dying
father. She never woke, poor tired child !

And then Thomas Birt turned feebly from
wife to child, and said gently, “God bless you
all and Jim,” and lay quite still.

He died so quietly that sleeping Sissy
never knew when the soul near her fled, and
the poor wife would hardly believe Jim when
he tried to lead her away.

All that long day Jim stayed at the farm.,
doing what he could for the bereaved family ,
and at Mrs. Birt’s; earnest request he promised
not to leave her till after the funeral.

“Your name was last on his lips,” said the -
poor woman with a sob.

Jim’s mother came up, too, when she
heard the news, and from her Jim heard of
that other news of which all Lowerdale was
talking.

The poaching set had made a night of it, -
and been caught by a band of the Squire’s
keepers; two o-f the lads were badly
wounded, and.six others were in custody.

“Mother,” said Jim solemnly, “I might
have been there but for a messenger from

God: it’ll be a warning to me for life I
hope.”

Aftd then he told the whole tale of his
wavering intentions, and the turn given to his
life by the appearance of little Sissy Birt.

“I shall always think God sent her straight
to me,” said Jim; “else why did she come
through the stile meadow instead of taking
the other road to Bridgelawton? She cannot
say herself, poor child ! And, mother. I’ll
do as Mrs. Birt wishes, if you and father
think right: I’ll work on her farm arid try to
keep things straight. I did once think I
ought to leave Lowerdale,but since poor Will
Dawes is in bed for weeks, and Lawrence and
Murphy are in prison, I can’t go wrong with
them, and by the time they get about again
we shall all, I hope be steadier ”

And so ends the story of Jim Wraxall’s
messenger.

Xittte ^trav ellers.

HIS is a little story for the young¬
est readers of the REALM.

When Ethel and Elsie, Eva’s two

little cousins, arrived at Aunt Mag¬
gie’s, Eva herself was tucked up in
bed in her own little room, and fast
asleep. She had wanted very, badly,
indeed to stay up and see her cousins
from California, bnt mother had said,
“No, Eva, it will be late when father
brings them, and they are sure to lie-
very tired, so as soon as they have
had something to eat I shall see them
tucked up. in bed, poor I ttle souls.
Everything will be strange and new
to them, so you must try to make them
very happy, Eva.”

Eva was up early the next morning.

(Playing with Jumping-Jack.)

for she was very anxious to see- her
new cousins, and as soon as she was
dressed she went to their room to pay
them a visit, with one of her toys in
her hand. Both the little girls were
awake, and at first Eva felt just a
little tiny bit shy, but she soon sum¬
moned up Courage to say, “I’m Eva,
and I*ve brought you this to play
with.”

Then Elsie came to the foot of the
bed, and very soon all tinea li.t’e girls
were laughing merrily at the e mie
antics of the “Jumping Jack,” and lit¬
tle Ethel was saying, “Cousin Eva,
mayn’t I have it to play w.tb a bit
now?” and by the time Mamma came
in to tell the little travelers that ft
was time to get dressed they were fast
friends, and Elsie and Ethel had made
up their minds that they were going
to love Cousin Eva very much indeed,
for she had promised to lend them all
her toys and books, and Eva had said,
“Of course, we- must be friends, for
don’t our names all begin with the
same letter?”

New French Pistol Saber.

The British fleet to-day confsts of
489 .ships, with a total dfsplacemeni of
1-500,000 tons. , Sixty-four' battle < hips.

carry 50,000 officers arid men and mount
2,671 guns. There are 137 cruisers, wh ie
among the smaller craft are 218 torpedo
boats and destroyers and S5 larger tor¬
pedo vessels as well as 15 coast defense
ships.

“Edward, I hear that you have diso¬
beyed your grandmother, who told you
not to jump do^n those steps.”
“Grandmother didn't tell me not to.
papa. She only came to the door and
said: ‘I wouldn’t jump down tho?-:
steps, hoys,’ find I shouldn’t think; sit.
would, an old lady like her.”

Squaring

Snowbound Snawley (In deep dis¬
gust)—Has it come to dis that yer are
bound wid a saw on yer shoulder look¬
in’ fer work?

Foxy Feeney (injuredly)—Yer wrong
me, parti; I’m lookin’ fer food, an’ 'de-
saw makes folks t’ink I would work,
Yer see, l alius avoid yards wo’t hev
wood piles, an’ w’enever Fm cornered
an’ offered a job I ax so much fer me
services dat no one will hire me.—
Judge-

The Horse Next to Camel.

A horse will live twenty-five days
without food, merely drinking water

Chemical Printa in Darkness.

Here Is. a way to take a picture in the
dark: Draw a picture on a piece of
paper, using sulphate of quinine in
making the outlines. Expose the pa¬
per to the sun for a few minutes; then
place the paper face down on a piece
of sensitive paper, like that used by-
photographers, and place the two
sheets between the leaves of a book.
If the sheets are removed from the
book a few hours later you will find
:hat an exact reproduction of the draw-
! ng will have been impressed on the
sensitive paper. Designs of any sort
ran be copied in this way, or you may"
trace over a printed picture or design
with sulphate of quinine and by the
same process produce a faithful copy
>£ the print. Try it.

A Popnlav Ehrrear.

Nearly everybody entertains the
opinion that a dishonest grocer has
a penchant for mixing sand with his
3Ugar for the purpose of gain. This is
a popular error, for sugar is but rarely
adulterated, from the fact that mless
scientifically done, and then only with
a certain kind of clay, the fraud would
come to light without the consumer
applying any test. If sand is mixed
with sugar, It would be discovered by
the sugar eater, for the sand would be
found as a deposit at the bottom of
the coffee eup, or it would betray itself
by the grit in the cake.

A Bee,

A little girl was visiting her cousins
in the country for the first time, and
everything was so strange to her’ that
she could not help showing her ignor¬
ance. Her cousins seemed to be
amused at her unfamiliarity with
things that they knew so well, and this
vexed her. The next morning, at
breakfast, she saw a chance to show
them that she was not so ignorant, af¬
ter all. There: was a dish of honey
an the table, and she said, with an air
of self-satisfaction:

“Ah, I kee you beep a beef 3

©ne Sbtp vtftbtn another.

U R friend the Cap¬
tain has the following
story to tell the read¬
ers of the REALM.
It was in the year
1849 or ’50 that the
small side-wheel steam
boat 8. B. Wheeler
was built at Smith’s
ship yard and docks at Eastport, Me.

She. was a good exam pie'of'tlie steam¬
boats of that period; well fitted and
furnished, and of about 250 tons bur¬
den.

The Wheeler made one season, with
indifferent success, upon the St. Croix
River (which is the eastern internation¬
al boundary line between the United
States and the British possessions in
America), and then, the California
boom being at its height, she was sent
as a Yankee venture, to San Francis-
so, says the Lwistou Journal.

She proved the first 1 steamboat to
ply the inland waters of California,
and ran, for a long time, upon the Sac¬
ramento River, undl outclassed by oth¬
er steamers, when she crossed the Paci¬
fic to Honolulu.

The Wheeler was a pioneer in more
than this, however. Her departure
marked the first attempt of its kind
in transportation annals. It was an
event on the St. Gioix to witness which
the whole population of the river
towns gathered, I am told by the
Captain’s wife, to whom he turns for
verification and dates as he tells me
the story, that at that gathering she
first met the Captain. Perhaps it is
this fact which lias caused the gallant
sailor to retain so much interest in the
now' out-of-date craft.

Up the river, upon the English side
of the St. Croix, was built the bark
Fanny. She was built for a purpose;
designed and measured to receive the
S. B. Wheeler in her capacious hold.

The very day that she was launched
she was also sunk but by design. In¬
deed, the bark had no stern; the tidal
river flowed in and out of the empty
shell. - v

Alongside was brought the steamer.
Her funnel and walking-beam had
been removed but otherwise she was
not dismantled. As the tide served
just, for the purpose, the Wheeler was
floated, head on. to a berth within the
submerged hull. It was a pretty good
fit.

After fastening the steamer well
within, they towed the bark around,
with head up stream: the receding tide
flowed out, and the Fanny and the S.
B. Wheeler rested upon the river bot¬
tom, the one inside the other.

Next they fixed -the stern in place
W'ith screw bolts, following the design
of the builders, and with the next tide
which ascended the St. Croix the bark
floated—in fact, they both floated.

Next they stepped the masts and put
on the rigging. Of the bark’s three
masts, two, the main and mizzen,
passed directly through the steamer to
reach the keel.

The space between the shells of the
tw r o vessels w T as packed with coal; pro¬
visions were taken as a cargo, and,
with a passenger list of 200 goldseek- •
fairs, many of whom had grand quar¬
ters in the Wheeler’s cabin, the two
crafts in one were towed out of the
river, amid the shouts of the populace,
to Square away in Passamaquoddy

for the long voyage around the Horn
to the Golden Gate.

That she arrived at her destination,
we have ample proof: moreover the
bark Fanny came back to Boston.

An Artificial Jaw.

Probably the hardest task that a
dentist ever had to do was to make an
artificial jaw. But that is what a De¬
troit dental surgeon has succeeded in
doing.

John Die. a young farmer of Royal
Oak, Mich., was shot in the face with
a shotgun by an angry brother-in-law.

John Die’s condition was terrible and
lie was grad al y starving to doa;h. be¬
cause he could not cat. He was taken
to Detroit, 1o surgeons and hospitals,
where his case was pronounced hope¬
less. No one would attempt to help
him till he found Dr. Osius, a dentist.

The doctor experimented till he had
found that by means of fine wires he
could fasten an artificial jaw to the
two back teeth.

THE ARTIFICIAL JAW.

The experiment took five weeks to
complete. Wi en finished the jaw was
not a pretty object, but it was planned
to do work.

Japrticse Backsliders.

Christianity is going backward in
Japan instead of forward, according to
Japanese newspapers. Several prom¬
inent men have turned their backs on
the Christian faith after they had ad¬
vanced greatly in its teachings. The
most notable tin nge is that of the Rev.
Paul Kanamori. He was pastor of a
Congregational Church at Tokio and
President of the Doshisha University.
He wrote several religious books that
are still being distributed by mission-
aires. He lias gone into business and
ghen up the Christian pursuit entirely,
lie is now' a director in the ToHo
Stock Exchange.

The Rev. Dr. Ichiliara, who four
years ago w as at the head of the school
of law's and politics in the Doshislia
University, is now' noted only for his
business ability. He is an officer in
the Nippon Bank and has made a large
amount of money since he left tlie
church. Prof. Yujero Motora, a prom¬
inent officer in the Tokio Imperial Uni¬
versity, hr-s sever <1 nil connection with
the -Christian chorea. He stiTtfled in
America under the auspices of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and held
a position in the Methodist College. He
now denies both Goa and Christ, and is
a leader in a strong faith knowm as
the Nippon Shugi, cw* Japanese princi¬
ples.

HE COULDN’T HELP IT

And He Proved It to tlie Colonel** Snip
Isfaction.

A corporal in one of th® regiments
down at Chickamauga Park had be¬
come entangled with a difficulty, and as
a result of it, added to an accumulation
of similar such, he was called to ap¬
pear before the colonel of the regiment.
“Cornoral Jenkins,” said that officer,

severely, “you are a fine soldier and a
sensible man, and you ought to con¬
duct yourself differently.”

“I was drunk, sir,” explained the
corporal, very contritely.

“That is no excuse. Don’t you know
it is W'rong to get drunk?”

“Yes, sir,” admitted the corporal,
w'ithout cavil.

“Then why do you do it?”

“I can’t help it, sir.”

“You cannot excuse your fault that
wav, sir,” said the colonel sternly.
“You know you can if you "want to.”

“But I can’t, sir.”

"Yes, you can,” insisted the colonel.
“A man can help doing anything if he
puts his mind to it.”

The corporal stood up straight and
saluted.

“Beggin’ your pardon, sir,” he said,
“but do you think when I heard that
Uncle Sam had got into a scrap with
them dirty cigaroot-smokin’ Spanny-
ards and was askin’ his boys to take a
hand with him to lick ’em off the face
of the eai th that I could help dropping
everything right then and there ar.d
grabbin’ up a gun and takin' a hold
with tne old man and the other boys?
Say, colonel, do you think a man about
my size could help doin’ just what I
done and bein’ right here ready when
he says the word?”

The colonel was stumped for an in¬
stant. Then he get up and took the
corporal’s hand.

“Get out of this,” he said hurriedly;
“get out. and if you ever get drunk
again I’ll have you put in the guard
house and nailed up until the war is
over.”

Times are so hard that the price of a
compliment has been reduced from fif¬
ty cents to a quarter.

If you want to borrow money don’t
work your friend for a few cents;
work a bank cashiei for a lot.

After a woman has had experience
she knows that a man is just as mean
before marriage as after.

About all a girl does for her little
brother is to jerk his clothes and. say,
“Behave yourself!”

After a woman knows a man thor¬
oughly she is content with the compli¬
ment if he asks for a second piece of
pie and doesn’t praise her cooking.

The society editress of a newspaper
seldom lasts more than a year; at the
end of a year all the women hate he .

If there is any important news from
the seat of war a man can always hear
of it without neglecting his work to
run to the bulletin boards. It is lil a
losing a hat in the wind: th® other fel¬
low always chases it.

When a woman gets up to take her
leave her hostess feels that she is fall¬
ing short of her duty unless she spends
the next fifteen minutes in sweeping
away her guest’s excuses for not st y-
ing longer.

Instead of teaching a little piano¬
playing, how to dab in paints, danc¬
ing, &c., to make a girl fitted for a wife,
she should be given a drill in develop¬
ing her patience. Any married woman
will admit that she has more need of
patience than she has of the two-
step.

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“This is what I call fun, boys,” said
Frank Curtis, as he sat down with the
other boys to their meal in the tent.
They had been three days on the edge
of the woods beside a pretty inland
lake, but as their dishes had not come
oefore, they had just to-day gotten nice¬
ly settled. “Schools all right, but what
a relief to be away from civilization
where we don’t have so many rules. We
are free, free as the wind. Two-weeks
of fun, boys, whoop la I”

“This milk came from no iron-tailed
cow, that’s sure. ©, it’s good!” ex¬
claimed one of the hungriest, if one
boy at camp would be hungrier than
another. “Of course, you got it at the
farmhouse, Stan.”

“Yes,” answered Stanley Clark, the
steward.

The boys bought their milk and eggs
and vegetables at the only farmhouse
In sight, of Farmer and Mrs. Brown,
two good old souls who already would
do anything for the boys but let them
hunt in their woods. -

“That makes me think.’ added Stan¬
ley, “Mrs. Brown asked me to-day if
we boys would not like to give an en¬
tertainment or—lawn ‘feet.’ as she
colled f it, to raise money to paint their
church at Magnolia Hill.’’

“They haven’t any nerve, have they?”
“What do we know about lawn fetes?
The girls always get them up. We go
and enjoy ourselves.”

“BIT tell you, boys,” began Joe Tay¬
lor, when the hubbub had subsided,
“they’ve: been awful good to us, I’ll
admit,. Don’t, know what we'd done if
they hadn’t lent us a frying-pan and a
pail a,nd what-not. But we are on a
vacation ‘for’all the fun that’s in it.’ as
Frank says; getting up an entertain¬
ment is too much like work.”

“That’s what • I say,” assented most
of the boys. * ;

“But see, here/’ said Stanley, “the
Idea stuck me as rather ridiculous at
first, but as I was coming back from
There I thought.maybe it wasn’t.so far

out of the quest!oil after ali. Anyway,
we ought not to be so busy having a
good time that we can’t do a good turn
to someone else. And you know what
we promised Miss Norton, boys.”

On the Sunday before the boys had
promised their Sunday-school teacher
that they would try to do some helpful
act during the first week of their va¬
cation.

“That’s so,” said one of the boys
thoughtfully. “Well, what could we do
to amuse the assembled natives?”

“Why, ron coulf nlnv the mandolin,
for one thing,” repTecl Stanley. “We’ll
revive the moonlight quartet, and Joe
can please any crowd with his take¬
offs and impersonations. You know I
told fortunes at a first-class party once,
and [’ll do that.”

One by one the boys agreed to enter
into it. It might be fun, too.

Mrs. Brown’s face lit up with gen¬
uine pleasure when Stanley told her
the boys would do what they could.

That afternoon while the coin no rs
went fishing. Mrs. Brown hitched up
old Dolly and drove from house to
house telling the neighbors that “them
lads from the city is getting up a fine
entertainment for the next night, and
the proceeds is agoing for to paint the
church. They can sing just beautiful.
We hear ’em evenings, and they is
such polite and obliging lads, too.”

The next day she was busy getting
ready her thick maple syrup, whien
they would sell hot, nd making pop¬
corn balls.

Meantime the moonlight quartet had
run over a few of its well worn har¬
monies, and had found itself in good
voice. Frank was heard to tune up his
mandolin and then say “guessed he did¬
n’t need to practice.” Roy Ellis even
consented to go through some of his
aerobatic gymnastics which had won
the admiration of the boys at school.
They hung Chinese lanterns in the tent
and in the trees, which they had
brought from home.

The moon having risen the people be¬
gan to arrive: some on foot, som^ in
wagons and others in rowboats. They
looked a little curious at the boys at
first, wondering what they were going
to do. But after Frank had played his
mandolin and .Toe had recited one of
his comical pieces, the boys were sure
tlieif listeners were pleased, for tney
were generous with their encores.

“Here are your nice fresh popcorn
balls, five cents apiece, two for ten.”
was heard in the familiar voice of
George Wood, who had earned the
name of “Stiff” at school on account
of his usual dignity of mannor

“This way to have your fortune told,
all for five cents. If they don’t
come true you’ll have your money
back.”

“Hot syrup, hot. thick maple syrup,
just on the turn of sugaring, every
third dish free,” came a voice from the
tent.

“I believe it’s a ‘go,’” said one boy
to another, as the quartet came to¬
gether to favdr their audience with an¬
other selection. “And it’s great fun
for us, too.”

When, with Mr. Brown, the boys
counted ur> the money afterward, they
could hardly believe they had cleared
over nine dollars.

“I hope we can camp again next
year,” exctaimed Frank to some of the
boys who had gathered in Joe’s room
one winter evening.

“So say we all of us. I often think of
those jolly days when I am pegging
away at this Batin.” said Joe, as he
threw the book on the bed. “But. do
you know, I lT e to think of the lawn
‘feet- best of all.”—Ohio Farmer,

“I only sold free papers dis morn¬
ing. I’m gettin’ sick of de literary
business!”

There is a lady occupied in the in¬
struction of the juvenile mind who is
quite willing to confess that the pupils
who attend her classes do not do all
the learning. Some of the small folks
tinder her tuition occasionally astonish
her with their superior knowledge ol
the modernly developed resources of
the English language. A lecture on
hygiene had been included in the pro¬
gramme for the day, and she had
taken care to show the effects of al¬
cohol and tobacco upon the system,
She impressed her teachings by means
of anatomical charts, which gave es¬
pecial lucidity to her remarks when
she came to warning the little girls,
years in advance of any practical need
the dangers of tight lacing. One of
the little girls, whose home surround¬
ings are of the sort in which ease
rather than elegance of expression is
sought, listened with profound atten¬
tion.

“Now, Margaret,” the teacher said,
“you may see how well you remembei
what I have said about tight lacing
and tell us why it is injurious.”

There was no response.

“I mean you, Maggie,” the teaches
added, and the girl jumped to her feet
as she recognized the more familial
name.

“Tight lacing, ma’am, is injurious*
ma’am-”

She hesitated and the teacher smiled
encouragingly and said, “Go on.”

“Cos, ma’am, it’s liable to twist yet
slats.”

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Who shall sing the lullabies
When our little baby cries?

First and best is mamma’s strain,

As she sings and sings again, %

Sweetest words for babies ears, : v
Words that quiet all his fears; L T~
“Hush, my darling, lullaby.” [4

Next the wind takes up the song.

As it briskly flies along
By the casement in the night,
Murmuring as in affright:

“Hush, my darling, lullaby.”

Then the raindrops coming down
On the quiet, sleeping town.

Dash against the window pane,

Anti repeat the low refrain:

“Hush, my darling, lullaby.”

And the waves upon the shore
Sing the baby’s song once more,

Wind and rain and wave and weather;
Sing the baby’s song together.

BOOMERANGS.

How to Make Them amt How to Throw
Thrin.

Boomerangs are of two kinds—re¬
turning and non-returning. The first
is called invariably the Australian
boomerang because it originated a-
mong the natives of Australia, and is
used almost exclusively by them at the
piesent day.

Travellers assert that a native will
leave his home in the morning armed
only with a couple of return 4 ng boom¬
erangs, and will come back at night
carrying a large number of birds killed
with these strange weapons.

The boomerang that comes not back
differs little from the ordinary club. It
is, however, preferred to-day to the
o.nei by the native Australian.

If you care to try your hand at boom¬
erang throwing, it will be well to make
them, as they are expensive weapons
to try and may be broken before pro-
fi' -ency is acquired.

'I he boomerang is formed of a bent
stick, one side'rounded, the other flat.
Ic is necessary to choose a very hard
sUvng and heavy wood, and the best
plan is to cut a piece from a natural
bend or root of a tree, and to let the
c irA e of the boomerang follow the
giain of the wood.

They differ in length from lb inches
to 3 M: feet, and in breadth from 2
incies to 3 inches. They should be
about three-eights of an inch thick,
tapering toward the ends, which may¬
be either round or pointed, while the
edge must be sharpened all round. One
& de must be convex, the other flat, the
sharpness of the edge along the con¬
vexity of the curve varying in dif¬
ferent boomerangs. When thrown, the
boomerang travels forward tor some
distance, and and then generally re-,
turns in an ellipse to withiu a few
paces of the thrower. If the boomer¬
ang strikes its mark it fads to the
ground.

In throwing, it must be grasped at
one end, stretched back behind the
shoulder and then brought rapidly for¬
ward above the head, the inside facing
the direction in which it is thrown. It
may be hurled upward in the air, or
downward so as to strike the ground
some distance from the thrower, lu
the first case, it flies with a rotary mo¬
tion its shape would indicate, and
after ascending a great height, it sud¬
denly returns in an elliptical liue to ft
spot near its starting point.

An Apparent Impossibility.

Give one of the children a piece of
paper, in the center of which is a round
hole about the size of a penny. Also
give him half a dollar and request him
to pass it through the hole *n the pa¬
per. He will give you a look of sur-
prheand claim that it can’t be done
you, however, insist that it can, a
furthermore you set about to pro * e
to him.

PASSING COIN THROUGH THE HOLE.

No. 1 is the piece of paper, now
folded as seen at No. 2, with the coin
between its folds. Creafse at each side
as seen in No. 3. Take hold of the paper
with one hand each side of coin No. 4
and gradually push the coin out. What
has been accomplished in folding and
creasing the paper was to elongate the
round hole so that it would become a
long slot, instead of a round opening.

A Good Nature*! Kmperor.

The Emperor of Austria was paying
a surprise visit to the cadet college in
the Nejistadt of Vienna when he en¬
tered a classroom and there sat, an in¬
terested and sympathetic otflocker.

Suddenly his eye fell on his plumed
helmet, which he had left reposing on
a bench in front of the head hoy in the
class. Then he noted that the boy had
plucked out a green feather and was
handing it around as a gratuitous me¬
mento among his schoolfellows.

The Emperor was merciful anfi
merely said: “My young friends, i?
yon want to rob me of my feathers, I
would sooner giro them to you my-
seif.”

Thereupon, amid the enthusiastic
applause of the boys, he suited his ae
tion to his words. He returned from
the cadet examination with “plucked”
expressed plainly in his molting crest

Out of the Mouths of Babe*.

Two little girls were gazing at the
stars one evening. “I wonder what
they are?” said one. “Oh,” replied
the other, “I guess they are goad lit¬
tle night lamps that have died and
gone to heaven.”

A visitor who was trotting 4-year-
old Freddie upon his knee, remarked
to t-he little-fellow’s mother: “Do you
know, there is something in this young
man I like?” “Say,” exclaimed the
precocious youngster, “who told you
that I swallowed a penny?”

Ethel, aged 5, was learning to sew,
and one day, after vainly trying to
make the preliminary preparation with
a needle and thread, she asked: “Mam¬
ma, don’t they call the hole in a nee¬
dle an eye?” “Yes, dear,” was the
reply. . “Well,” continued the little

miss, “I’ll bet this olu needle s cross¬
eyed.”

Little 5-year-old Willie had a very
bad memory and his mother had a
hard time teaching him to say “if you
please’^vhen he wanted anything. The
other evening at dinner he said:
“Mamma, hand me the butter.” “If
you what, Willie?” she asked. “Why,
if you can reach it,” was the reply.

Little 4-year-old Harry was not feel¬
ing well and his father suggested that
he might be taking the chickenpox,
then prevalent. Harry went to bed
laughing at the idea, but early next
morning he came downstairs looking
very serious, and said: “You’re right,
papa; it is the chickenpox; I found a
feather in the bed.”

When Pussy Runs Wild.

Where cats have run Avild on isolated
islands.they have become very wild
and powerful. On Sable Is’and, off tAe
the coast of Nova Scotia, they were in¬
troduced about 1880, a»d rapltllv ex¬
terminated the rabbits, which had been
in possession for at least half of a cen¬
tury. In one of the harbors of Kergue¬
len’ Land, a barren and desolate bit
of the Cape of Good Hope, cats escaped
from the ships have made themselves
at home on a little islet known as Cat
Island, which has long been used as a
wintering place for sealers. Here they
live in holes in the ground, preying
upon seabirds and their young, and'art
said to have developed such extraord n-
ary ferocity that it is almost impossible
10 * tame them even when eapturec.
young. On Aldabra, two hundred
miles north-west of Madagascar, eats
have completely exterminated an in¬
teresting spec-lea of ran peculiar 1 o that
Islend.

We are giving away

GAMES,
TRICK'S
PUZZLES
'STORIES,
RECIPE MANUAL
ETC., ETC., FREE

Not one game or one

I,trick to each person,
but an assortment of the above making

500 for each person

and including-- ILLUMINATED GAMES,

such as Dominoes, Chess, Nine Men Morris,
Fox and Geese, etc.; Startling TRICKS of
Sleight of Hand for stage and parlor enter¬
tainment; chapter of Conundrums, the best
you have ever seen; PUZZLES, with correct
answers; STORIES for long evenings; Recipe
Manual of trade secrets, telling how to make
such articles as colored inks, glue, baking pow¬
der, hluing, paint, tooth powder, candy, etc. etc.
One of these recipes originally sold for $100.00.
You have an opportunity to get rich making and
selling the artic es described here. Also some
choice cooking recipes and hundreds of other
useful and entertainingdevices, including the
magic age card; how to memorize dates and num¬
bers by a wonderful discovery invaluable to teach,
ers and scholars; deaf and dumb alphabet; some
good experiments; etc., etc. Just think of it,

of the above free to
EACH PERSON

who sends only ten cents for a
3 -months’ trial subscription to
our great paper for young and old. All we ask is
that if you like the paper show it to your friends or
speak a good word for us by way of an advertise¬
ment. Tihisoffer is to introduce ourselves to ico,ooo
new subscribers. If the above supply cf games etc.
become exhausted before you write to us, we will
return your money. But we advise you to write
at once to secure the above. Address—

BEALM,Station A 9 Boston,Mass,

THE REALM

No. 370 .—A Holiday Greeting,

(A zigzag.)

1. Sky blue. 2. Farther in front. 3.
The presiding officer of an assembly. 4.
The fruit of the vine. 5. A long, narrow
strip of cloth, leather or other material. 6.
Games, dramas. 7. Part of a door. 8. To
rule. 9. The largest of animhis. 10. A
transparent gum rosin, usually of amber
color, of aromatic odor and slightly pun¬
gent taste; it exudes' from the bark of a
shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia. 11. Per¬
sons skilled in making poetry. 12. Trans¬
parent, bright. 18. A report.

All the words contain the same number
of letters. When rightly guessed and placed
one below the other in the order numbered,
the zigzag, reading from the first letter,
will express a friendly wish.

Not. 371 .—Four Short Remarks,

No. 372 .—A Conundrum,

A young man who was going to escort
his sweetheart to a holiday party made the
unnerving discovery that he had no clean
collar to wear; so he carried one of his
soiled ones to the only laundress living in
* the place. He had become very angry at
her the week before because she had ruined
some of his linen, and he had resolved
never to employ her again, but this was an
urgent case, and he had no time to send
his collar away and get it back before the
party. Moreover, he didn't want to buy
one, as his money was rather low. When
he called for the collar in the afternoon, it
was ail ready for him, and inspection
proved that it was “done up” beautifully.
He offered her 2 cents in payment, but she
told him it was worth 10 cents to bother
with just one collar. The young man be¬
came very angry again, but paid the la up-
dress the price she asked. Why did the
woman’s act in the forenoon resemble
what she did in the afternoon?

No. 373 .—Enigma,

Though 1 is called a unity,

* My one is half, as you will see
By finding out what is its station
When used as an abbreviation.

My 2 to 5 you’ll find is what
May he suggested of a Scot,

A 5 to 9 is—I’m so glad—

What this free country ne’er has had,

Or you may call it, if you please,

An instrument of the Chinese,

With sixteen stones, that makes a clamor
By thumping on it with a hammer.

What sharp, quick noise does tot An show?
I’m sure that solvefs ought to know.
That 1 to 8 they may have heard
Is supopsition not absurd.

No. 374 .—Puzzle of the Stars.

Friends, one and all, I pray you show
Bow you sine stars would so bestow,
Ten rows to form, in each row, three?
Tell me, ye wits, how this can be?

No. 375 .—County Questions.

1. Which county in Ohio is composed of
a genus of forest trees?

2. Which is full of music?

8 . Which never knows the light of day
or any luminous body? ‘: -

4. Which is a grassy plain?

5. Which is full of blows?

6 . 'Which is of a crimson color?

7. In which does the traveler get be¬
wildered?

8 . Which is most lofty?

9. Which is the most harmonious?

10. Which is in a state of warfare?

An Astonished Farmer,

A and B took each 30 chickens to mar¬
ket. A sold his at three for $1, B at two
for $1, and together they received $25. A
afterward took 60 alone, which he sold as
before, at five for $2, and received but $24.
What became of the other dollar?

This is rather a catch, as it is only true
in part that the first lot were sold at five
for $2. They begin selling at that rate,
but when ten sales have been made by each
A’s chickens are all sold, and they have
together $20. B has ten chickens left,
which he continues to sell at two for $1,
and realizes $5. Had he sold them at five
for $2, he would have received $4 only for
these.

Key to tlie Puzzler.

No. 360.—Holiday Acrostic: G-rouse.
O-sprey. O-riole. S-hrike. E-aglet.

No. 361.—Christmas Pi:

On Christm s let all anger end.

Be peace between us, oh, my friend!

Hark! Hear the heavenly ehorus still—

Be peace on earth, to all good will.

No. 362.—Numerical Enigma: Walter
Scott.

No. 363.—Central Deletions: Gobelin,
goblin. Table, tale.

No. 364.-—A Christmas Puzzle: St.
George. Nest. Archery. Pineappla Drag¬
on. Snapdragon.

No. 365.—-Treasure Trove: Stewart
(Alexander T.). Tare, tars, stew, art,
wart, tart, war, tea, start, star, strew,
stare, are, tar, arts.

No. 366.—A Diamond:

No. 367.—How Long Is It: One hun¬
dred and seven yards.

No. 368.—A Reversal: Snub—buns.

No. 369.—Riddles: 1. Smiles, because
there is a mile between tiie first and last
letters. 2. Fox. 3, Done. 4. Weight.
5. Canine.

DO YOU TAKE THE

STAMP EXCHANGE ?

THE BEST STAMP PAPER
IN ILLINOIS,

One year on trial, only 10 cents.

Six months for 5 cents.
Special adv’g rates, 10c per ineh.

THE STAMP EXCHANGE is the l est

advertised paper in the U. S_. By
thorough advertising we have se¬
cured a subscription list that any
paper would be proud of. Our
ad. in the last issue of the Realm
brought 250 subscriptions, and
from this ad. we expect at least
500. Of course we cannot afford
to let this small subscription price
of ten cents last always, as every
issue we are securing more ads.
which necessarily increases the
number of pages. f

IOOO Omega stamp hinges, .. ..7c

4000, 25c; 9000, 50c; 20,000, $i.co;

50,000, $2.00

BLANK APPROVAL BOOKS. I sell the
best blank approval book on the market.

Each book is ruled to hold 60 stamps. Has
a neat cover with neatly-printed information.
I sell them at the following prices:

I blank approval book, ..3c;

2, 5c; 5, 10c; 10, 15c: 15, 25c;

25, 35c; 5°> 60c: 100, $1.00.

500, with your name and address neatly
printed on cover, only $3.95-

PACKETS. I also make a specialty of
packets. 100 var. foreign stamps ...... 7c.

300 var. do. 50c; 500 va. do. .$1,507'

1000 va. do. $4-95; 2000 va.$22,OO
5000 var. do., $280 00.

U. S. 1898 DOCUMENTARY ISSUE.
I sell these stamps at wholesale and retail at

the following prices:

1 set, 8 varieties.- ... • • • 03

2 sets “ 05

5 “ “ 09

10 “ “ ....18

25 “ “ .,...40

50 “ “ 70

100 “ “ 1.25

SCOTT’S 59th CATALOGUE. In order
to get your order for the 59 ’^ Catalogue, I
will give 2000 Omega stamp, hinges FREE to
every one who sends 58c for the catalogue, to
me.

STAMPS BY THE POUND,

We have a good mixture of
stamps that have been put up in
pound packages, and as long as
they last you can have them at
70c per pound.

15,000 STAMP PAPERS.

I have as large a stock of stamp
papers as can be found, and in
order to make room for other
goods, I have decided to sell them
as long as they last, 2 for 1 cent.

EYERYTHING POST P AID.

S. E. MOISANT,

KANKAKEE, ILL.

Reference, Publishers of this paper.

THE REALM

S we go to press the newspapers are
full of reports of the gigantic theft of
hundreds of thousands ol dollars from
this government by parties connected
with the post-office department in Cuba. C.
F. W. Neely, treasurer of the Cuban postal
service, has been suspected as the chief guilty
one ( and detectives are now looking into his
private affairs. It is believed that Neely pos¬
sesses stamps which he has no right to,
amounting to many thousand dollars. When
the surcharged issue for Cuba was superseded
by a permanent set of stamps, the government
ordered the stock of surcharge remainders
burned, but it is presumed by many that Neely
did not destroy the stamps but set about soi¬
ling them to Cuban postmasters on his own
account. One detective who has been work¬
ing in Mun< ie, Ind., where a suspicious-look-
ing package had been sent from Cuba,
addressed to Neely, states, however, that the
real steal has been the sale of counterfeit
stamps, which, it is alleged, have been print¬
ed in the office of a printing company there
of which Neely was one of the owners. A
few more weeks of investigation will probab¬
ly clear away any doubt as to the real nature
of the embezzlement, and we would advise
collectors to follow closely the newspaper re¬
ports relating to the matter.

Judging from the large wholesale catalogue
of Philippine stamps which has recently been
received from Federico C. Schenkel, we
should think that quite an extensive business
is being canied on in the sale of Philippine
stamps at Manila. We are informed that on
the 28th of December the bulk of Philippine
remainders was sold at auction to the highest
bidder for cash, and that the firm of Ed. A.
Keller & Co. of Manila became the purchas¬
ers for the alleged sum of $501,300. These
stamps were then placed in the hands of an
agent for disposal, and are now being sold in
entire collections and in wholesale lots only.
Fifteen dollars is asked for 120 vaiieties,
worth more than double this sum by Scott’s
catalogue. Specially-low prices are charged
for lots of 1000 or more of a kind. The cat¬
alogue contains a copy of a certificate signed
by C. H. Sleeper, 1st Lieut. U. S. V., the
collector of internal revenue at Manila, veri¬
fying that 30 million stamps and 100,000 post
cards, which he claims to be the entire lot of
remainders, were sold to the above-named
firm, and that the same are the genuine
stamps originally i.-sued by the Spanish gov¬
ernment. These were not the only remain¬
ders, however, as two prominent American
dealers on the Pacific coast have since pur¬
chased another lot of some 400.000 Philip¬
pine stamps.

The latest issue of Guam stamps consists of
the regular U. S. issue surcharged in fed,

with a rubber stamp “Agana Isle of Guam.”
This inscription is in one line extending across
two stamps, so that it will be necessary to
collect the stamps in pairs in order to get the
whole thing.

Now that the U. S. have acquired the
island of Samoa we may expect another
surcharged issue for the above place.

A ic green envelope stamp printed on blue
paper is a variety from (Juba which heretofore
has not been listed.

PRIVATE PROPRIETARIES.

Only 12 firms have thus far issued private
proprietary stamps under the 1S98 revenue
act, and the number of varieties issued by
them collectively only amounts to 20. To
mention them in detail, one each has been
issued by the Antikamnia Chemical Co.,
Branca Bros., Chas. Fletcher, Hostetter Co.,
Johnson and Johnson, Od. Chemical Co.,
Piso Co., Radway & Co., Warner Safe Cure
Co., and Dr. Williams’ Med. Co. (link
Pills.) Furthermore, Lanman and Kemp
have issued 3 varieties and Chas. Marchand
7. The 7 r-2c Chas. Marchand stamp is
probably the most ^ expensive one to ; buy,
being priced by one dealer at 75 Ci The Em¬
erson Drug Co. are soon to get out private
stamps which will add one or more varieties
to the above list.

The new set of Brazilian stamps of four
vajiies—foO, 2o6, 500 and 700 reis—issued to
commemorate the 4th centenary of the dis¬
covery of Brazil, are
very attractive la¬
bels though hot highly
artistic. They are now
absolete, having been
put in Use but two
months, but the re¬
mainders are being sold to collectors and
dealers. Only 400,cco were printed. After
the 7th of Sept, all unsold copies will be de¬
stroyed. To prevent the repiintirg of any
specimens the plates were destroyed as soon
as the above supply was struck off.

. Just as an apparently rare set of U. S.
stamps was being put up at auction the dealer
having them for sale discovered that they
were nothing more than cardl oard proofs
which had been split and perforated in exact
imitation of the real stamps. No doubt these
proofs, if sold, would have brought a good
figure and some unwary collector would have
got badly taken in.

Combination locks a^e to be placed on post-
office lock boxes, thus doing away with keys
which are always a bother to those holding
lock boxes. The box will be opened by a
secret combination known only to the one
leasing the box, in the same manner that a
safe door is opened.

The magnificent collection of F. L. Sl'olz
has beqn sold to Makins & Co. for about $5,
000. Among the gems is a 3I Tuscany, a
specimen of which feold at auction recently
for $ 475 -

In order to get the patronage of the boy
collector one dealer has begun to offer stamp
buttons free with each order.-

It hasbeen estimated that there are 223,
500 post offices in the world arid that
of them have been named after some saint.

PARIS EXPOSITION NOTES.

Mr. George Beaver, the chief of the salary
and allowance division of the post office, has
returned from a two-month’s trip abtoad
having been sent there by this government to
install an American working post office upon
the grounds of the Paris Exposition. He re¬
ports the office to be complete, also the poGal
exhibit in connection with the same.

We learn from a clipping taken from a
Washington paper that assistant postmaster
general Madden has had prepared and com¬
piled a full collection of postal stamps, be¬
ginning with the issue of the 5c Franklin
stamp and the* 10c Washington stamp of the
issue of 1847, and ending with the latest
issue of the orange colored Cuban special
delivery stamp of 1900. T he collection in¬
cludes specimens of all the stomps that were
ever issued by the United States post office
department. They are artistically arranged
on nine large pasteboard cartons and w ill be
sent to the Paris Exposition to be added to
the exhibit of the postoffice department. The
entire collection consists of about 600 speci¬
mens and the New York stamp expert who
mounted the stamps says that the collection is
worth at least $3,000.

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

The demand for the cheaper grade of
stamps this spring has been greater than usual
and dealers have had all they could do to
keep in stock a full line of the most popular
stamps. Wholesale lots of low-priced stamps
which have recently been auctioned in N. Y.,
Philadelphia and Chicago, brought higher
prices than have been realized for some years.
This demand for the more common stamps
indicates that the beginner is joining our ranks
in large numbers.

A bill has been introduced into the House
authorizing the commissioner of internal rev¬
enue to lefund cash for proprietary or docu¬
mentary stamps returned to him if presented
in quantities of two dollars or more, face
value.

Since we mentioned the fact of a German
stamp journal appearing in several colors to
illustrate new issues etc. in their true tints,
we have been reminded of a publication
started in St. Louis in 1891, having frontis¬
piece illustrations of stamps in their real
colors. The paper only survived a few
months and copies are vefy rare to-day. It ic
probably the only paper of its kind ever at¬
tempted on this continent.

The Darkish West Indies are for sale, and
it is expected that either Germany or the U.
S. will purchase them. D. W. I. stamps
have never been plenty and those who ha 1 e
them to sell or exchange had better wait
awhile as prices are sure to rise immediately
after the islands change hands. At any rate,
if the islands are not sold soon a new issue of
stamps is in contemplation.

Proprietary remedy manufacturers have
organized to petition Congress to repeal the
stamp tax. They claim that there is no pos¬
sible excuse for continuing this tax when the
net cash balance of this government as shown
by the official statement of the U. S. Treasury
is now nearly 302 million dollars and the
monthly income nearly 7 million dollars more
than enough to pay all military and civil ex¬
penses. The proprietary tax does not exceed
this surplus, hence no part of it is necessary.

We illustrate herewith two stamps which
have appeared recently, the first being the 3c

value of the latest Nicaraguan set, and the
second* the new 1 p Cape of Good Hope.

The new stamp booklet was suggested by
postmaster Herbert of Hidwatha, Kansas.

I'-i-O*

T O introduce our juvenile magazine, premiums and novelties,
we have decided to give away several thousand packages
of Free Samples, one package to each person who writes
immediately for the same.

Read the instructions below and note contents of each fr e

package, as follows:

100 Foreign Stamps, Japan, etc.

J 1 Set of 8 Japanese Stamps.

Together with all the following:

1 Stamp Album.

4 sample Blank Approval Sheets.

Samples of new Hinge all bent.

1 Sample Gum Paper.

1 Perforation Gauge for detecting counterfeits,

varieties, etc. Also millimetre scale.

2 Illustrated Price-Lists of stamps, premiums, etc.
All the above are free if vou read the following instructions.

Directions for obtaining the foregoing

Cnmniac* One package of the above
1 l Cv samples is free to each per¬

son who fills out the annexed coupon and sends with it onry
eight cents (coin or stamps) for a three-
month’s trial subscription to our large, illus¬
trated paper The Youth’s Realm, and
also two 2c stamps to help pay postage and
wrapping of samples and papers. This is
all necessary to receive the above.

If you want the 10 books advertised else¬
where and these samples also, send 35c
for a year’s subscription to our paper, and
send the two 2c stamps extra for postage,
as above, and we Will mail everything ad¬
vertised in two separate parcels. Present
subscribers must extend their subscriptions to receive the tree
gifts, stating what month last subscription began.

Don’t forget the two 2c stamps. Cut out the coupon now* t

COUPON No. 47

Dear Sirs:

Please send free samples and your \
juvenile publication for three months to—

Name.

Town..

St. or Box

State

A Bullard & Co., 97 Pembroke Street, Boston. Mass.

U. S. BUFFALO ISSUE.

T HE designs for the
B u ff alo stamps
have been approv¬
ed, and judging from
the description given
us, we think it prob¬
able that the stamps'
will be far superior
to those of the Columbus or Omaha series. ‘
There will be six values,' each of which is to
be printed in two colors excepting the ioc
which w r ill be in three colors. Following is
a complete Jist of the stamps: ic a lake
steamer, 2pexpress train, 4c automobile, 5c
Niagara Falls, 8c canal locks at Saulte de
St, Marie, and 10c the American flag.

NEWS FROM ENGLAND,
nglish dealers are making the same
criticisms over the reductions in the
price of stamps according to the new
Stanley Gibbon’s catalogue that Amer¬
icans made when the last Scott catalogue ap¬
peared, and many dealers declare that the
sale of new issues has been rendered so un¬
profitable in consecptence of these changes
that it no longer pays them to carry these
stamps in stock.

The color of the half penny British stamp
has been changed to a new. shade of green to
meet the requirements of the Postal Union,
and a few of the Irish people think that the
queen has ordered the change as a special
compliment to Ireland since the new shade
closely resembles the Irish national color.

A shilling stamp printed in two colors is
expected about next July.

7'The vstamp season has been exceptionally
duILin London this year, owing no doubt to
the war- in Africa.

We hope to be able to continue in our
aext issue the revenue list begun last month.

l HE lack of trustworthy informa¬
tion regarding the Great Barrier
’ ~ pigeon post stamps is in itself

another “great barrier” to the philatelist at
the present time.

With the increase of new issues the only
album which has a place for every stamp is
the blank album. The most expensively
printed album cannot contain a separate
square for the insertion of every stamp issued.
A philatelist in this city who has a valuable
collection of over 8000 varieties uses four
blank volumes in which to mount his stamps.
He has spent two years in transferring his
stamps from a printed album and in arranging
them in these books which he has ruled and
decorated with pen and ink. We do not ad¬
vise collectors of a few thousand varieties to
transfer their stamps into blank albums, as
printed albums are undoubtedly a help to the
classification of stamps when not too numer¬
ous and when issued previous to the printing
of the album; but no collector of upwards of

5000 varieties should,
in our opinion, confine
his collection to a
printed stamp book.

We illustrate here¬
with the attractive new
2p stamp of Tasmania.
The U. S. stamps in

book form have been put on sale, and they
will be appreciated' this summer by those
wishing to carry stamps in their pocket with
no fear of their sticking together. The first
party to buy one in a suburban town of Bos¬
ton asked for a book containing 12 stamps,
paying his quarter for the same. The clerk
banded him 12 books each holding 12 stamps,
and the purchaser,, who was an honest man,
spent some moments in persuading the clerk
that he had made a mistake, so ignorant was
the latter of the article he was selling. It
wouldn’t take a clerk long to give away his
salary by selling the books in that fashion, for
the government would bear no part of the
loss through such carelessness*

A GENEROUS OFFER.

This month we make another great
offer—The youth’s Realm three
months for 852 ! and a free package of
stamps, stamp publications, etc. worth
many times the price asked for the
paper, thrown in as a gift, if two extra
stamps are sent us. We do this, in the
first place, to gain new subscribers.
After a party has read our paper for
three months he wants to' renew his
subscription for twelve more months
and thus become a permanent sub¬
scriber. In the second place every
package of samples we send out adver¬
tises our goods and brings us custom.
We do not make one cent of profit on
this twelve cent offer. In fact we have
thus far lost money at the start on each
package of samples given away with
a three month’s trial subscription. But
our returns in the end have more than
made up for'this loss. If you arenol a
subscriber do not fail to make use of
our coupon at once. It will pay you from
the start, and we will look to the future
for our share of the profit.

The new provisional stamps for Crete, sur¬
charged in red, have been recalled as the sur¬
charging should have been done in black.

Dahomey is the name of another French
colony to issue stamps, and from Kishergarb,
a native state of India, stamps have appeared
as well as from Northern Nigeria, an English
colony in Africa.

The Dominion Philatelic Association will
convene this year at St. Catherines, Ontario,
on July 2nd and 3rd, and in 1901 the conven¬
tion seat will be Montreal.

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